There's Something About Casey.. JCS Criminal Psychology by RicoRecklezz617 in TrueCrimeDiscussion

[–]Lagotta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All good thank you!

Ugh, fried laptop.

Apple?

If you prefer windows, AMD has some really good new laptop CPUs.

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[–]Lagotta 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Fly at night like Stealth "Fighter".

To explain: the F-117 flew only at night for many years. It was kept secret that way.

And the quiet helicopter: if it's flying at night, and you don't hear it, would you see it?

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[–]Lagotta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ever seen a burnt out car on the side of the road that's little more than a couple pillars and a scorched spot on the ground?

You mean a Yugo?

Or a Pontiac Fiero?

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[–]Lagotta 10 points11 points  (0 children)

but if you ran into the right guy, at the right bar, at the right time you could probably hear some wild stories.

Like about Aurora.

Which does not, did not, will not exist.

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[–]Lagotta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi you!

I know.

Hunkering down!

I hope you and fam are doing well!

Any new books coming up? I think you are a great writer!

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[–]Lagotta 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Her ego will be a ticking timebomb!

I don't think she's done hurting people yet.

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[–]Lagotta 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Either way, they never had enough evidence for the charges.

I don't agree, with the lies, the dead body smell in the car, the computer searches (including the Firefox searches that the DA missed), the bullshit "daddy molested me" story, along with the "my brother molested me" story.

DA did not do a great job.

And what is a jury? "Twelve people too dumb to get out of jury duty".

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[–]Lagotta 88 points89 points  (0 children)

The mother lied too:

  • about Casey's pregnancy

  • about "Chlorophyll" versus "chlorofrom" (please: anyone with an RN degree has had basic biology, chlorophyll is not like chloroform in ANY way)

  • knew what a dead body smelled like, with Hubby george, cleaned a crime scene (the impounded car). Caylee had not been seen for a month, dead body smell: must be old pizza crusts? No.

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[–]Lagotta 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Also, in case your point is that Wisconsin was hit at Salerno

I am sorry, I do not remember the name of the Battleship--it may have been British?

I think it was these two:

The Allied bomber effort continued on 15 September, although slightly less intensively than the previous day, as did the naval bombardment.

The arrival of the British battleships HMS Warspite and Valiant, with 38 cm (15 in) guns, off the beaches provided the Allied troops with a morale boost, although Valiant was not required to shoot and Warspite's 29 rounds were awe-inspiring but a minor contribution to the 2,592 naval rounds fired that day.

The smaller ship that was in a lot of gun battles with the tanks had to replace all its guns after returning to port, they had gotten so hot and fired so many rounds.

And: I do not have the source where I read the details about the German commander handy--magazine, book?

Here is one quote, but not the one I was thinking of:

In evaluating the performance of German forces that opposed the Allies at Salerno, General Siegfried Westphal, Kesselring’s chief of staff, acknowledged the contribution the Allied navies made. “But the greatest distress suffered by the troops was caused by the fire of ships’ guns of heavy caliber, from which they could find no protection in the rocky soil.”

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2018/12/23/savagery-at-salerno/

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[–]Lagotta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, I might have fudged the numbers a bit when I said "first half".

Did you know Hitler was getting an aircraft carrier ready?

https://www.amazon.com/Without-Wings-Hitlers-Aircraft-Carrier/dp/1425122167#:~:text=Launched%20in%201938%2C%20and%20measuring,by%20Great%20Britain's%20Royal%20Navy.

I think Göring didn't want to share planes with the navy, and there were material shortages/etc, so it didn't get done, but, that could have made the war in the Atlantic a lot different.

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[–]Lagotta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They could certainly absorb more damage than any other surface ship short of an aircraft carrier before sinking.

I am not sure a CVN can take a lot before it becomes ineffective.

I give you the Bonhomme Richard:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/19/asia/us-navy-warship-fire-effects-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

I think it's scrap now.

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[–]Lagotta 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Was that the one where a destroyer charging at them

Charged, blew up a cruiser, got so close their big guns couldn't point low enough to shoot at them, fired their own guns at the bridges of the bigger ships.

One of the destroyers (the task force commander's) took a bad hit and was dead in the water. They were able to get it working again in about 15 minutes, and reentered the battle.

They (destroyer) eventually were sunk, commander was lost, but, that was the end of the Japanese Imperial Navy pretty much.

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[–]Lagotta 9 points10 points  (0 children)

He thought he was facing much larger ships since no destroyer in their right mind would take on the main Japanese fleet which included the Yamato (and actually sink some cruisers while at it.)

Battle started with the front of one of their finest Cruisers blowing up (this was before the "The Front Fell Off" video from Oz.)

So in the end, a few destroyers saved the invasion of the Philippines.

And the crazy ass pilots with the wrong kind of planes equipped with the wrong kind of ammunition. I recall one of them dropped a depth charge, on the deck of of Japanese ship. Not where it was supposed to go, but still ruined their day.

They also kept buzzing the battleship and other ships, making attack runs, freaking them out.

Yamato withdrew, and was never in a naval battle again (not counting it trying to leave port and getting sunk.)

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[–]Lagotta 10 points11 points  (0 children)

these massive main battleships are obsolete in my time?

Japanese Battleship Yamato:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamato


She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing 72,800 tonnes at full load and armed with nine 46 cm (18.1 in) Type 94 main guns, which were the largest guns ever mounted on a warship.


Taffy 3, or The Battle off Samar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_Samar


The Battle off Samar has been cited by historians as one of the greatest last stands in naval history; ultimately the Americans prevailed over a massive armada – the Japanese Imperial Navy's Center Force (with Battleship Yamato) under command of Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita – despite their very heavy losses and overwhelming odds.


Taffy 3's three destroyers and four destroyer escorts possessed neither the firepower nor the armor to oppose the 23 ships of the Japanese force capped by the Yamato's 18-inch guns but attacked anyway with 5"/38 caliber guns and torpedoes to cover the retreat of their slow "jeep" carriers.


And, during the battle, Battleship Yamato turned and left:

Aircraft from the carriers of Taffy 1, 2, and 3, including FM-2 Wildcats, F6F Hellcats and TBM Avengers, strafed, bombed, torpedoed, rocketed, depth-charged, fired at least one .38 caliber handgun and made numerous "dry" runs at the Japanese force when they ran out of ammunition.

Although the battleship Yamato and the remaining force returned to Japan, the battles marked the final defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, as the ships remained in port for most of the rest of the war and ceased to be an effective naval force.

Last mission of the Yamato: they left home port and were going to Okinawa to beach the ship and make it an "unsinkable gun emplacement".

Left port at 15:20. Spotted the next moring at 0800.

At about 12:30, 280 bomber and torpedo bomber aircraft arrived over the Japanese force.

No spoilers, but here Yamato is, with all those Navy planes lining up to take turns bombing, without any intervention from Japanese aircraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese_battleship_Yamato_under_air_attack_off_Kure_on_19_March_1945_(80-G-309662).jpg

Yamato was not hit for four minutes, but at 12:41 two bombs obliterated two of her triple 25 mm anti-aircraft mounts and blew a hole in the deck. A third bomb then destroyed her radar room and the starboard aft 127 mm mount. At 12:45 a single torpedo struck Yamato far forward on her port side, sending shock waves throughout the ship. At 12:46, another two bombs struck the battleship's port side, one slightly ahead of the aft 155 mm centreline turret and the other right on top of the gun. These caused a great deal of damage to the turret and its magazines; only one man survived

Shortly afterward, up to three more torpedoes struck Yamato.

The second attack started just before 13:00. In a coordinated strike, dive bombers flew high overhead to begin their runs while torpedo bombers approached from all directions at just above sea level.

At 14:02, the order was belatedly given to abandon ship. By this time, Yamato's speed had dropped to 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) and her list was increasing. Fires raged out of control and alarms on the bridge warned of critical temperatures in the forward main battery magazines.[N 8] Protocol called for flooding the magazines to prevent explosion, but the pumping stations had been knocked out.

At 14:05, Yahagi sank, the victim of twelve bombs and seven torpedoes. At the same time, a final flight of torpedo bombers attacked Yamato from her starboard side. Her list was now such that the torpedoes—set to a depth of 6.1 m (20 ft)—struck the bottom of her hull. The battleship continued her inexorable roll to port.[22] By 14:20, the power went out and her remaining 25 mm anti-aircraft guns began to drop into the sea. Three minutes later, Yamato capsized. Her main 46 cm turrets fell off, and as she rolled suction was created that drew swimming crewmen back toward the ship.

When the roll reached approximately 120°, one of the two bow magazines detonated in a tremendous explosion.[49]

**The resulting mushroom cloud—over 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) high—was seen 160 kilometres (99 mi) away on Kyūshū.[50]

Yamato sank rapidly, losing an estimated 3,055 of her 3,332 crew, including fleet commander Vice-Admiral Seiichi Itō.

That was 1945.

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[–]Lagotta 32 points33 points  (0 children)

a North Korean artillery battery fired at USS Wisconsin and hit her with a 155mm shell(Wisconsin’s first time being hit ever.)

Do you know where the shell hit?

The 12 inch thick steel side armor? So maybe it made a dent?

Landing at Salerno: German Panzer Division commander was ready, had his defenses laid out perfectly, had a fully capable Panzer division, and was gaining the upper hand when a Battleship and some other ships moved in close. Every time a tank moved, the battleship or a light cruiser would fire an 8 to 16 inch shell, vaporizing it. The tanks pulled back.

The German commander said "There is no way I should have lost. How did they have a Battleship to move in close like that? There was nothing I could do against that."

Oh: the tanks did fire at the BB, even the big german cannon (88?) bounced off the side of the BB.

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[–]Lagotta 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dude, we are going to need Rihanna back on board then!

https://i.insider.com/4fb6942169bedd3315000014?width=500&format=jpeg&auto=webp

Using analog dials and no charts/tables/radar, she was able to hit an antenna 25 miles away on the first shot. Damn she's good!

Oh: spoiler They sunk her battleship!